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Author Phillips, Whitney, 1983-

Title This is why we can't have nice things : mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstream culture / Whitney Phillips.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The information society series
Information society series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Why the troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today's media landscape.
Contents I. Subcultural origins, 2003-2007 : 1. Defining terms: the origins and evolution of subcultural trolling ; 2. The only reason to do anything: lulz, play, and the mask of trolling ; 3. Toward a method/ology -- II. The "golden years," 2008-2011 : 4. The house that Fox built: anonymous, spectacle, and cycles of amplification ; 5. LOLing at tragedy: Facebook trolls, memorial pages, and the business of mass-mediated disaster narratives ; 6. Race and the no-spin zone: the thin line between trolling and corporate punditry ; 7. Dicks everywhere: the cultural logics of trolling -- III. The transitional period, 2012-2015 : 8. The lulz are dead, long live the lulz: from subculture to mainstream ; 9. Where do we go from here? The importance of spinning endlessly.
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Subject Online chat groups -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Online chat groups.
Online identities -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Online identities.
Online etiquette -- Social aspects.
Online etiquette.
Social aspects.
Internet -- Social aspects.
Internet -- Social aspects.
Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Internet users.
Internet users.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Chatrooms.
Other Form: Print version: Phillips, Whitney, 1983- This is why we can't have nice things 9780262028943 (DLC) 2014034232 (OCoLC)890310364
ISBN 9780262328999 (electronic book)
0262328992 (electronic book)
9780262328982 (electronic book)
0262328984 (electronic book)
1336200758 (e-book)
9781336200753 (e-book)
9780262028943
0262028948
9780262329002
026232900X
Standard No. 40024702643